Manchester derby in China cancelled

Manchester United said Monday that its pre-season friendly with Manchester City in Beijing has been cancelled after torrential rains soaked the turf at the Bird's Nest Stadium venue.

"Due to recent weather events, tournament organisers and participating clubs have decided to cancel tonight's International Champions Cup game," scheduled for Monday, Manchester United said in a statement.

The International Champions Cup is a pre-season series of friendly exhibition association tournaments and was hosted in China for the first time in 2015.

Flooding is not uncommon during the summer monsoon season in northern China, but rains have been unusually heavy across the country this summer.

Rainstorms lashed the region this week, driving over 300,000 people from their homes and leaving hundreds of thousands more trapped as waters rose.

More than 200 people have been left dead or missing in the neighbouring province of Hebei.

AFP

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Jealous wife breaks 5-yr-old stepson's arms, leg, in Ogun

A jealous woman identified as Fatimoh Olanrewaju, has been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly brutalising her five-year-old stepson, Iyanu, ending up breaking his arms and a leg, Punch reports. The young boy whose mother had divorced from his father, was left in Fatimoh's care but according to neighbours, has been maltreating the child at every given opportunity till it got to the she had to break his arms and leg, with him ending up at the Federal Medical Centre, Idi-Aba, Abeokuta, where he is undergoing treatment. The incident, according to reports, happened at Onihale village along the old Abeokuta-Lagos Expressway on Thursday, August 11, 2016. It was neighbours who reported the matter to the police leading to Fatimoh's arrest which was confirmed by the acting Police Public Relations Officer (APPRO), Abimbola Oyeyemi, who said the woman and the boy's father have been detained and would be charged to court soon for child abuse.

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Download Video: Adekunle Gold – Ariwoko

Swiftly following the release of his buzzing debut album Gold, YBNL toaster Adekunle Gold unveils a music video for one of the bagging songs, “Ariwoko.” “Numbers don’t lie and i don’t shout/ topping every chat and i don’t make mouth/ Oluwa lon se yi emi naa ko o,” he sings. Shot in Lagos, the clip was directed by Adasa Cookey and Plugged by MuchMusic LessTalk. Download

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